This year’s ClarinetFest included a fascinating lecture on articulation by Dr. Kornel Wolak. Wolak has been conducting research at the Oral Dynamics Laboratories at the University of Toronto Speech-Language Pathology Department together with Drs A. Slis, A. Namasivayam, and P. Van Lieshout to examine the inside of a player’s mouth, in real-time while playing, by observing them with machines such as 3D Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA) to record movements of the tongue, lips and jaw; Surface Electromyography (sEMG), to record the electrical activity of facial muscles (in particular, those of the lips) involved in playing the clarinet; Respitrace (induction plethysmography), an apparatus to measure respiratory kinematics of chest andRead More →

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